Can Kabbalah be used for divination or fortune-telling?
The Torah prohibits fortune-tellers, wizards and magicians because they deter man from doing what he has to do in this world, which is constructing himself and rising up to the level of the Creator. Man should not try to escape from what the Creator gives him, escape from what he is meant to do, as his performing of an activity in this world is the very process that enables him to work on his own self and correct himself and rise spiritually. If it were necessary for man to know what the next moment held in store for him, then he would know it. The future becomes perceptible to him only when the wish to know is no longer motivated by selfish impulses.
